Pritilata Waddedar

Pritilata Waddedar (5 May 1911-23 September 1932) was an Anushilan Samiti member and a commander of the Indian Republican Army during its insurgency in the early 1930s. In 1932, she assassinated DIG Charles Johnson in an attack on the European Club in Chittagong, Bangladesh before killing herself to prevent her capture.

Biography
Pritilata Waddedar was born in Dhalgat, Bengal Presidency, British Raj on 5 May 1911, the daughter of a brahmin clerk and a housewife. She was a great student, and she was accepted to Eden College in Dhaka; she was later admitted to Bethune College, and her degree was withheld by the British government. Waddedar became a teacher in Chittagong, and she became involved with the Indian nationalist movement in 1932, having fallen in love with Anushilan Samiti leader Nirmal Sen. Waddedar was allowed into the movement by Surya Sen, who approved of women fighting alongside men, and Waddedar became a commander of the Indian Republican Army after Nirmal Sen was killed by the Indian Imperial Police. In September 1932, Waddedar entered the European Club in Chittagong and killed policeman Charles Johnson and a few other policemen before being wounded in the leg by a policeman's bullet. Waddedar fled from the building and made it to the jungle nearby, and she decided to take cyanide rather than be taken alive and tortured.